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A56042 Proposals for the better management of the affairs of the poor 1681 (1681) Wing P3748; ESTC R217696 3,237 4

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PROPOSALS For the better Management of the Affairs of the POOR ALthough many good Laws have formerly been made for Relief and Imployment of the Poor of this Kingdom and of late several very Honourable Essayes by Proposals for supplying the Defects of such Laws as those of Sir Josiah Child Mr. Firmin and others yet we find so little Remedy of the Evils thereby intended to be prevented that many Hundreds of Beggars and Necessitous People go lye and are carryed about the Streets of this City and Suburbs forced as they say to prevent their Starving This being a very great dishonour to the Christian Profession in General and our Nation in Particular Yet a great many Well-minded People are with Bowels of Compassion forced daily to be Eye Witnesses of whose Concern for those Miserable Objects is Augmented when they consider the Vast Sums of Money that by the Charity of our Predecessours Standing Rates Customary Collections c. are appropriated to their Use The many Imbezzlements and Misapplications of this Stock being as we apprehend the Principal Cause of all the Miserie 's these Poor Wretches sustain having good reason to believe that the present Incomes to the Use of the Poor is sufficient for their Maintenance if under a better Management especially when disburden'd of that great Number of Seamens Wives Children and Relations whose Necessities for want of their timely pay though in His Majesties Service forces them to apply themselves for Relief and necessitates the Parishes to contribute to their wants to prevent their perishing For the prevention of all which Evils for the future and obtaining the good which will Naturally follow a better Regulation These following are humbly offer'd to your Serious Considerations That for the Future each Seamans Wife or Person by him Impowred shall receive every Third Moneth to him growing due to be paid at His Majesties Pay Office in London That all former Incorporated Bodies intrusted with Power and Management of the Affairs of the Poor be dissolv●d That all Beggars on what pretence soever be prohibited That all Feasting upon Parish-Stocks be prohibited and each Man obliged to bear the Charge of his Office in relation to the Poor and pay as others That the Cities of London and Westminster Burrough of Southwark and all other Places within the Bills of Mortality be Associated into one Province or Body That there be one Assembly of Men Incorporated with perpetual Succession by the Names of Fathers of the Poor their Number to equalize the Parishes to be Chosen once in Three Years at least by the Majority of each Parish out of the most Honourable either of the City or Countrey within Ten Miles of the Community That this great Body have power to make such By-Laws Ordinances and Orders as they shall think fit for the good Governing Imploying and Maintaining the Poor and Copies of all such Laws by them made presented to the Honourable House of Commons Each first succeeding Sessions by them to be Confirmed or as likewise Annually for ever to deliver a Copy to the said Honourable House of the Preceeding Years Proceedings That the said Corporation shall and may without Licence in Mortmain Purchase or Receive any Lands Tenements Hereditaments not exceeding the Yearly Value of the Gift Alienation or Device of any Person or Persons who shall be enabled to give the same and any Goods Chattels or Sums of Money whatsoever to the use of the Poor That Four in each Parish out of such as have served all other Parish-Offices be Yearly Chosen Overseers of the Poor That to Enable the Overseers the better to Discharge their Trust and undergoe the Trouble there be added to them a double Number by the Name of Supervisors Two of which to be the Church Wardens for the time being the other to be Chosen out of such as have served all Ward and Parish-Offices or Men of known Estate and Honesty The Choice to be by the Majority of Parishioners paying to the Poor and for preventing all Mistakes Misunderstandings or Clandestine Impositions in such Choyce the Clark of each Parish be obliged to make a Publick Declaration of Summons to the Parishioners the Sunday Preceeding the Choice which shall be made the Succeeding Thursday by the Majority then appearing That the Overseers and Supervisors do meet in the Vestry of the Respective Parish Churches every Sabbath-day in the Evening immediately after Service or Sermon to hear the Applications and settle the Affairs of the Poor but in case above Five of the Twelve be Absent all Business to be adjourn'd until the Major part shall meet That A List be taken of all Gifts and other Incomes to the Use of the Poor as likewise of all Pensioners and their Pensions a Copy of which Yearly to be affixed in such place of each Church as the Body of Twelve shall appoint That each Overseer with Two Supervisors take their Turns Weekly to visit the Poor and take Care of all Accidental as Foundlings c. as likewise of all such who in that Week shall have applyed themselves for Pensions or other Assistance and make the Report thereof to the Body the next Lords Day That each Overseer Receive from the Body a List of all Pensioners and their Pensions under his Charge for the Succeeding Week That all Moneys as they grow due either by Rents Rates Bells Palls Graves Accidental Gifts c. shall be received by the Overseer that Week he to be accountable to the Body the next Sabbath-day That for each Parish a Chest be made with Three different Locks the Keys to be intrusted in the hands of Three of the Eldest of the Body of Twelve in which Chest shall be kept in a Book fairly written the Account of each Preceeding Week sign'd by all the Members present at the passing thereof as likewise all Moneys that shall be in Stock and Writing as belong to the Parish in right of the Poor This Chest not to be opened but in Presence of Two at least of the Intrusted Members That this Body have Power to Demand of any Person or Persons the Inspections of all Papers or Writings whatsoever in order to the Discovery of any Clandestine Mortgages Sales or other Illegal Conveyances or Settlements As likewise to Sue for and prosecute the Rights of each Parish in any Courts of Law or Equity Free of any Fees whatsoever the Prosecution being in Right of True Paupers That for the more Regular Management and Settling the Succession of this Society Yearly with the Four Overseers and Two Church-Wandens Three of the Supervisors go off Their Vacancies to be supplyed as in the Ninth Article That for the timely prevention of those Mischiefs which will attend any Mistakes that this Body may its possible commit they shall be oblig'd within Fourteen dayes after each Quarter-Day to carry in to the Fathers at such place as by them shall be appointed their Originals Weekly Books and Yearly present a Copy of the List as in the Eleventh Article That each Member of either the Great or Lesser Bodies be obliged to Act in his Station upon the Penalty of _____ As likewise each Parish to choose their Member or Representative within the time limited upon the Penalty of _____ That in all Future Rates or Assessments to be made for the Poor every Man qualify'd may have his Voice by his Representative Twelve Men be Yearly Chosen in the Method as in the Ninth Article and added to the Body of Twelve which Twenty Four shall have Power to Compleat and Impose all Rates and all Persons aggrieved to appeal to the Fathers How Honourable will the Memory of that Sessions be to this and Future Ages who are Founders of such or like Constitutions when as the Effects of them they see such Bodies of Worthy Men discharging their Paternal Duty to Widows Orphans Strangers and Necessitous People Such Regular Buildings in each Quarter of the Society that one may contain Six or Seven Hundred People with such Governours Matrons and Inferiour Officers whose Exemplary Lives in all Modesty and Honesty may be of great Service to those Poor Ruff and Unpollish'd People Those that before were almost Eaten up with Filth and Vermin Cloathed with Nautious Rags and Dirt now of Cleanly and Wholesome Countenance in Modest Cloath Tight and Whole in Shoes Stockings and Linnen Those that before did Eat and were Lodg'd more like Brutes than Mankind now Twice per Day Sitting Eating and Drinking Good and Wholesome Provisions and in Order And that which is most Praise-worthy Taught sensibly to crave a Blessing from the Lord upon and Return Thanks for his Daily Provisions And for their Reception at Night Good and Cleanly Lodgings prepared Those that whil'st unhiv'd were a Swarm of Droans and Pest to the Society become oh a Miracle Industrious Bees each contributing something to the support of the General such a Number in the Service of the Kitchen such in the Laundrey such in the Wardrobe such in the Nursary such in the Looking after and Attending Aged Bed-Ridden and Helpless People such to the School such to Instructing those thereunto appointed by the Superiours in the use of the Hatchel and Wheel And such as Instructed at Work on the Stocks of ●lax brought into the House to be Manur'd by the good House-Wives of the Neighbourhood Much more of the same Nature might be added but for brevity fake omitted